Adam Gaffney is a physi­cian and writer with a focus on health­care pol­i­tics, pol­i­cy and his­to­ry. He is an instruc­tor in med­i­cine at Har­vard Med­ical School and a pul­monary and crit­i­cal care physi­cian at the Cam­bridge Health Alliance. His writ­ing has appeared in the New Repub­lic, Los Ange­les Review of Books, Salon, CNN​.com, USA Today, Jacobin and else­where. He’s a board mem­ber of Physi­cians for a Nation­al Health Pro­gram, a sin­gle-pay­er advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion. The views expressed are his own.